I really enjoyed that you ALL stopped in with that video. I am still giggling. I'm going back to catch that again. I love your signed card too and your dragon motif. I must say i am tickled pink. I am so happy that you could celebrate our fabulous founders..and us all here on our 10th. It is a true honor and i am truly elated. Spiritually yours in Tolkien too:), with grand thoughts and confidence for the future. sil ''What connects Nature to the spiritual, or requires the presence of the latter? In positive terms, as Alkis Kontos points out, when nature was still largely experienced as integral, alive and active, 'It was the spiritual dimension of the world, its enchanted, magical quality that rendered it infinite, not amenable to complete calculability; spirit could not be quanified; it permitted and invited mythologization.' And I would add, it still is and does.'' Patrick Curry-Defending Middle-Earth-Tolkien: Myth and Modernity - chapter: 'The Sea: Spirituality and Ethics.'

May the grace of ManwŰ let us soar with eagle's wings! In the air, among the clouds in the sky Here is where the birds of Manwe fly Looking at the land, and the water that flows The true beauty of earth shows With the stars of Varda lighting my way In all the realms this is where I stay In the realm of ManwŰ S˙limo